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Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1999-Present

The American Antiquarian Society has been awarding visiting research fellowships since 1972-73. These stipend-bearing awards have enabled a diverse group of researchers to spend anywhere from one month to a full year in residence at the Society.

Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and the Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850

Eliza

Richards

2002-3

Boston University

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America

Edward

Rugemer

2006-7

Boston College

postdoctoral fellow

Tracy

The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery

Jeffrey

Malanson

2009-10

Boston College

PhD candidate

Peterson

Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852

Woody

Holton

1999-00

Bloomsburg University

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

Republics of Hope and the Empire of Despair: A Social Interpretation of the United States Constitution

Andrew

Fagal

2013-14

Binghamton University

PhD candidate

Peterson

The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic

Barbara

Hochman

2001-2

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

senior lecturer

NEMLA

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution

Sean

Hill

2010

Bemidji, MN

poet

Hearst

research for series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s

Hilary

Wyss

2006-7

Auburn University

associate professor

ASECS

Native Literacy and Education in Early America

Catherine

Reid

2012

Asheville, NC

writer, essayist

Baron

research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823), author of "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida

Jeanne

Schinto

2015

Andover, MA

non-fiction writer and journalist

Baron

research for 3-part series about the Walpole Society

Matthew

Clavin

2003-4

American University

PhD candidate

Peterson

Men of Color, to Arms!

Karin

Wulf

2000-1

American University

assistant professor

ASECS

In the Shade of the Family Tree: Genealogy and Representation of Family Identity in Early America

Gudrun

Löhrer

2010-11

John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin

visiting professor

Ebeling

A Cultural History of U.S.-American Banknotes in the Early Nineteenth Century